“It ain’t quite teleportation, but it’s about as close as we’re gonna get right now.” That is possibly the most Josh Revell way to promote a sponsor that I have ever heard.
In the end the Andretti failed buyout wasn't the money, but the control of the team. But no problem considering Michael said that today and this was recorded earlier!
Wot. Money was the reason they wanted Andretti to pay for 70% of owner ship of the company to get control of the works team and an additional 200million as 'insurance' for the team in the event things didn't work out bring the price tag to around 600 million
@@xeakpress Michael Andretti said that it wasn't (in) an interview earlier today when he was announcing DeFrancesco to complete the indycar team, can't post links but look it up on motorsport.
@@xeakpress it's not. Tldr; Sauber wants to still handle the team despite Andretti 'buying' it. Andretti wants control of the team so he can "parachute" Herta into the 2nd seat. Conflict ensues and the deal fell through
NGL would have been funny if the Alpha team principal insulted Michael Andretti saying he wasnt Mario which made Michael decide to build the best F1 car to beat both Alpha Romeo but Ferrari
One of my biggest issues with him was when we knew Perez was leaving the now Aston Martin team. And how strongly he was calling for Albon be replaced by him and on multiple occasions even suggested he should replace Russell in Williams. It got so bad with Albon that Horner approached the commentators to more or less tell them to back off and leave Albon alone
Yeah Albon was driving like shit, of course he was critical of him. You people act like they need to spare feelings for poorly performing drivers. This is the pinnacle of motorsport, there is no room for crying.
For all the times he made mistakes in the heat of the moment, this was what made Murray Walker so respected by drivers and colleagues alike. He was fair to all drivers, painting them in the best light he could, even if they were Pay drivers. Case in Point, Silverstone 1997, a piece from qualifying: "That's Pedro Diniz, now we all know that Damon Hill has been taking a lot of flack in the last few races from his team boss, Tom Walkinshaw, one of the reasons that Tom was a bit agitated was the fact that Pedro Diniz, who is a very capable driver, but not the fastest in Formula One, has been quicker than Damon. Is he quicker Damon now? Most definitely, he is not, because Pedro Diniz is in 17th place, Damon Hill is in 13th place..."
Thanks for bringing up Damon. I don't believe there is anyone who swoons more for Lewis than that man... and so I get Josh's point. Having never found Paul that bad, then I guarantee it's my own bias at play.
@@dw235 Sky Sports Hamilton is a pretty bad tv channel with its bias; so to have someone who is not towing the company line is quite nice to see. Hearing the gushing of Crofty, Damon Hill, Johnny Herbert etc over the slightest fart Hamilton does has made me turn to the mute button on more than one occasion to the point where I turn on at the start of the race and turn off as soon as the timing screen comes up after the chequered flag.
@@ryuhayabaker I thought I was the only person doing that...the pro Hamilton bias coming from many of those Sky pundits is ridiculous. But then, the table has been set by ITV who spent years, literally years, pissing into Jenson Button's pocket when he couldn't win an egg and spoon race.
I never had any strong feelings one way or another about him either as a driver or a pundit. A source did tell me, however, that while he may have talent and good racecraft, his treatment towards others in the paddock (while in racing) was subpar. In the minds of some, he shared a nickname with Ted Lasso, and not in a good way...
@@Cancoillotteman ironic, considering that the common negative trait you are attempting to ascribe is entirely misplaced. It's Hamilton who has no friends in the paddock, not Max.
I haven't genuinely lol'd at a TH-cam video in a long time but that Palmer gag absolutely hit the mark. Shame really, he wasn't too dissimilar to di Resta in terms of performance either!
“Sainz cut the corner there at turn 3 as well on the inside” Paul di resta he’s a snitch also he made the 2012 f1 season end in a safety car ruining the finale at interlagos
I think as a driver Paul really was quite good not great but good. Rewatching the 2013 season Paul really carried Force India for the first half of the season. And his drives in the car Spa quali Bahrain almost on the podium really seem to be overshadowed by Nico Hulkenburgs drive in sauber that year. In which really wasn’t all that remarkable as up until the Korea time sauber really weren’t anywhere. As a pundit he really seems to be riding the max train. However I do think he’s quite good as he is an ex F1 driver so he is able to provide that input that other pundits cannot. Not terrible but not brilliant either.
Has nothing to do with driving "career". It's about his manners as a pundit. His commentaries seems to be tinged with hate for who ever he critizes. He comes across as hateful. It's not like that with Jenson Button or Anthony Davidson or Martin Brundle, Johnny Herbert, etc... Last season saw his massive hate on Albon and pushing for Checo to get a seat. Yammering about how Albon should always be within .3 seconds off MV and that he's supposed to be a Bottas for MV. Well, this year Checo has done okay but not ALWAYS within .3 off MV even with a better car. Yet nothing from di Rage about Checo. And that race where gave MV a tow in qually...Bottas did same for Hammy but was also able to qualify top 3 himself... I hope Sky gives JB gets more air than di Rage or even replace him completely. And not just because JB was a World Champ.
Just my words. I have no idea where people see all this "Bias" stuff and I don't care for his career. His is just so negative when talking about others.
Are you seriously saying all that about Di Resta in the same phrase you also said ""Not like Martin Brundle" ? Martin Brundle said "Here's the most important person in F1, and he's not blonde" when Vettel was hugging Newey after he won the championship. Brundle knee jerk reaction to Hamilton punting Albon in Austria by saying "WHAT IS ALEX DOING". Brundle saying "Oh he should've let Hamilton go" in 2012 when Maldonado was pushed off track. Even Crofty called him out on his biased reaction to the Spanish 2016 situation with Hamilton and Rosberg. Please...
I don’t agree entirely. I do think he can be negative but I don’t think he ever says anything hateful or intentionally hurtful. I think he just says it how it is, and whether you agree or not, you have to respect that. You need people like Di Resta, don’t be so sensitive about it.
Never had a problem with him, but his comments towards Yuki Tsunoda after Yuki admitted to being surprised at getting a seat for the 2022 season really rubbed me the wrong way. It was like Paul was mad that an F1 driver told the truth for once instead of being a doublespeaking PR man.
wasn't it DC that said that? either way, it's still a really dumb thing to say really. the fact that someone is mad when a driver says the truth shows how we used to see how controlled the drivers are. which is also probably the reason people are sad that a character like kimi is gonna be gone next year.
@@autisticguitar DC said something along the lines of, Yuki should "pack his little bag and go home" because he didn't have the mind of a racing driver. Di Resta said basically the same thing and when Rachel (I think) pointed out that she liked his honesty and that there's an additional language barrier for Yuki to deal with he interrupted her with, "This is Formula 1, though. It's the pinnacle of motorsports," which doesn't make much sense considering the number of pay drivers on the grid, and that it kind of came across like he'd prefer Yuki to just lie and pretend his rookie season was perfect.
@@thisaccountisdead168 Di Resta wasn’t criticising the honesty, he was criticising the mindset. And he’s right. To be successful in F1, you need the confidence and arrogance. You can’t go into a season thinking you probably don’t deserve to be there. If that is your mentality, you build up an inferiority complex and it’s hard to recover from that. Any driver, even if it’s Lewis Hamilton or Marcus Ericsson, needs to believe in themselves 100%.
i like him cuz he is one of the few pundits who speaks against hamilton , hamilton may be the greatest of all time , but you cant deny hes had some seasons handed to him, overall a 7 time world champion but only half of them really mean anything
@@thatonenigeriansformula really man? How has it been handed to him? Every great has had the best car and won championships with them. Someone has to drive that car and get it across the finish line. There is a reason he’s in the car and nobody else is.
Until a couple of weeks ago I didn't even know that Di Resta was "so" hated. I genuinely like him as a pundit. I've listened to his comments on several FPs/Qualies and I really fail to see the problem. Do I agree with every word he says? No. Is he at the Rosberg level of punditry? I don't think so. But to hate him? Come on, the guy does a decent job.
@@Ollyburl1ngo I think he's only hated by people who think him not treating Hamilton like he walks on water and turns water into organic wine is a criminal action against Britain.
@@chriscollins550 Well, they always use Hamilton to channel their hate, they consider it a BOGOF. Everything is Hamilton or Hamilton's fans fault. Apparently Sky Sports is also so into Hamilton. 😅
@@peterporkeresq.2817 That's true. But that's because he's raining world champion. When vettel champion it was all about him. The f1 title screen was all around vettel head and the car's in the back ground. Most interviews was about vettel and so on. Same when it was Michael s it was mainly about him. Them fan's are the problem not sky.
I've never really had a reason to dislike him. Hell, racing for United Autosports (pretty much my local team) kinda puts you in my good books if anything.
I thought I was the only one! I don't care if he's biased towards verstappen to be honest.. it kinda balances out all the pro Hamilton stuff from the likes of Jenson button. My issue is that practice, which sky do a really good job of covering and making somewhat entertaining, is generally ruined by him. While most of the other commentators and pundits realise they've got to keep an audience engaged and sometimes thats with a bit of banter, etc, diresta seems unable or unwilling to participate in this and just cuts people dead on air. It happens a lot. I'd much rather listen to chandock or kravitz... Whatever their careers lacked in driving standards (if they existed at all) they're fans of the sport and know the audience are interested in the same things they are rather than using it as an opportunity for points scoring or trying to be the biggest d*CK in the room.
He honestly might have had the most skilled set of teammates of any driver you have covered yet. Like talk about tough competition. Lewis, Seb, and even Di Grassi.
@@Firemarioflower Still one of the best midfield talents in the past decade, lasted 11 seasons in F1 and has beaten 6 different teammates across a season He’s still putting up good results this season
Ran into him at the Canadian GP in 2018. My friend asked him when he'll be getting back in an F1 car, he replied "Thank you". - Make of that what you will
Someone should alert rocketpoweredmohawk to this upload! The guy has some very ... interesting opinions on Paul di Resta XD By the way, Max's backyard is in Monaco, and he was born in Belgium - zo Zandvoort is only Max's backyard because his parents hold Dutch passports.
1. How many Dutch pundits aren't Verstappen groupies? 2. Is it so shocking that a British broadcaster would support a British driver? 3. What tinted rose glasses do you watch F1 broadcasts with? They sure are showing you an inverted reality.
He used to be my favourite pundit along with Ant, I remember in 2019 Hungary FP3 (I think) he commentated a Hamilton onboard practice quali lap and twitter praised him for his amazing commentary and insight… I do find him a little grumpy tho
@@jagerbombasstic hill is an idiot I swear. After Monza he was pretty much saying verstappen did it on purpose. I don’t like him Martin sometimes. Seems like he’s a little grumpy
@@goodmorningkay add button and rosberg in there as well. Would rather hear them in commentary over Brundle now especially as all of them have had more recent experience of driving f1 cars and button/rosberg have raced some of the drivers on the grid so have more insight
@@deezelkane I think you can tell by my TH-cam name that I like Vettel...don’t care who wins the title. I just like Paul, why can’t people just enjoy things rather than pointing out people’s flaws which are only caused by their own bias
Can’t believe people hate Paul for supposedly being biased toward Verstappen when Crofty literally dies weeping whenever anything gets in Hamilton’s way
Me neither , it's actually funny hearing people stacking up reasons to justify their hatred , can't see paul losing any sleep over it tbh it's mostly on social media which can have extreme and toxic views imo
The way some of the Sky commentators completely take away from other drivers achievements to focus on Lewis irritates me so much that I honestly love Paul Di Resta being a breath of fresh air. The way they all acted after Monza was a prime example of how much bias there is towards Lewis while Paul sounded more neutral to me by stating both drivers at fault
@@robbo132 you clearly know nothing about racing if you think it was more Max's fault. Try racing first then you will realise it was 50/50. Sky F1 love Ham, its actually disgusting. If you don't see it then you are probably a Ham fan
@@robbo132 The only thing more funny than those 2 clowns taking each other out at Monza, are the braindead “fans” blaming the other guy. Keep it up, it’s effing brilliant!
Hmm, I never saw Paul as questionably biased or anything. I wouldn’t want him on commentary as he doesn’t been the best at picking things up when in the main light. But I always saw that crafty and Martin seem to have a definite British bias so his difference of opinion to them never made me think he had a max bias
All commentators have a little bias, it's just how they manage it live on commentary. The Dutch commentator though lol... That guy doesn't even try to hide it.
@@LouSassol69er Pretty good reason for that. Here's some stats to prove it: - Max is only the 9th Dutch driver to enter 10 or more Grand Prix (not to be confused with starting) - Max is only the 5th Dutch driver to score points (4th if you don't count Christijan Albers' 5th at the 2005 US Grand Prix) - Max is only the 2nd Dutch driver to score a podium - Max is the 1st Dutch driver to win a Grand Prix - Max was the youngest ever driver to start a race - Max was the youngest ever driver to win a race BY A MILE (2.5 years)
He's got a raging hard on for max and red bull, should have seen the way he was beaming at horner in an interview he wanted to tongue punch his fartbox
@@TheLOMTONG he’s more a Lewis fan than he is Max fan mate without a doubt, I think he respects Verstappen and his talent as a driver to driver basis but he definitely favours Lewis a lot more
@@8-bitMosh The same brundle that said max did nothing wrong in monza? That Brundle? Martin has always been rather fair in his appraisal. Saying others is just wrong.
@@8-bitMosh At least Brundle can still acknowledge and appreciate other drivers instead of downplaying their skills or race results. More so than others, I feel.
Tbf Paul Di Resta sways as much towards Max as Sky and F1 Twitter sways towards Lando and Lewis. Paul Di Resta, at least that I've noticed, is equally as biased as everyone else, but everyone else is biased towards the British drivers.
I genuinely had no idea there was any hate towards him.... Especially with a comparison to his colleagues such as Crofty & Brundle, now there's a ground for hate towards bias commentators
@@ddha0000 I wouldn't say so, my pool of favoured drivers changes frequently. However, there certainly is an apparent bias towards British drivers from the British commentators
Sky's entire coverage is biased. There's 20 drivers with 10 respective team principles on that grid all of which are competing, granted not all AT the same level, but still IN the same level of motorsport. Sky's pundits are nothing more than a bunch of lovestruck fanboys who are only interested in the opinions of their favourite 8 drivers race in race out!!
I really don’t mind diresta. Maybe that’s my bias a a max fan but I find it more annoying when Crofty goes on about Hamilton and Russel like they’re the greatest thing to ever grace the earth.
It's not like Sky F1 is british, aren't they. You hardly gonna find unbiased commentary from Ziggo Sport, why do you expect it from Sky F1? They are paid by british fans, F1 were the ones who decided to show that broadcast in other countries, doesn't mean they have to be neutral
maaaan I was impartial to him for the longest time, but the nonsense he been saying I'm Japan after the Gasly incident is just pure BS and him talking nonsense
He's an asshole in the booth. Been getting better recently though, but when Sky has Anthony Davidson, who's every bit as knowledgeable as he is but much more charming, I have no idea what they need him for.
@@un6250 dude then you have to remember that Ralf pissing Schumacher is main commentator in germany. Hes reaching Villneuve levels of crap talk, with him giving no insides, only talks abour how good he was, and the days when he was racing (Or they are talking about if you like your steak medium, or rare (in the middle of the race))
He is ok 👌drops some clangers every now and then but I appreciate his opinion. However Crofty does my skull in! He is rude, domineering and loves himself. Every time time he asks a former f1 driver their opinion and then talks over them I literally roll my eyes and say “shut up” to myself
This is pretty much my take. ‘Crofty’ has really started to grind my gears and actually hearing people having different opinions is really interesting whether biased or not.
Man y do people hate Crofty I don’t understand the hate. Like yes he is biased towards Lewis, but the same can be said to almost every commentator. Like how Dutch commentators are biased towards max and how Spanish commentators are biased towards Carlos and Nando
I dislike him because he's just dog water of a commentator. Often tends to spurt out nonsense and make silly mistakes when commentating (for an example, during the Italian GP he said that Kubica's car was the one who had trouble, instead of Giovinazzi + he mixed up their race numbers), having a clear bias towards Hamilton (but also sometimes blowing smoke up Verstappen's rear end). All in all, he's a sucky commentator. I much prefer Brundle over him.
@Tendoman77 I don't watch F1 on Skysports, therefore I'm lucky not having to listen Crofty's gibberish; buuuut, I can only imagine people rolling their eyes whenever he mentions AWS. 🤣
He was one of my favorite drivers on the grid. The Scottish Checo Perez. Sometimes he would start among the backmarkers just to overcut literally three quarter of the entire grid, finishing somewhere around 4th to 6th. Criminally underrated
@@davidaprians Not that good? come off it, an Asian Le Mans title, DTM title, formula 3 euro title, Super 1 national karts title. The man has proven skill and trophies to show for it. better percentages than Felipe Massa and similar to Daniel Ricciardo, and they certainly aren't meh drivers.
His "insight" offers absolutely nothing at all. Very dull man who is capable of filling a bit of dead air, that's about it. Didn't realise just how bad he was until Button started to commentate during a few races and FP sessions, gives so much detail about how it is to be a driver part of a team - Di Resta pales in comparison
Raced Paul as a Kid, his parents would send him to the track 2-3 days BEFORE anyone had arrived, he pretty much never went to school just did laps every day. Yes he won a lot but he was on a different $$ bracket. He was pretty talentless tbh
I appreciate his insight and energy while commentating; his hotlap commentaries are fantastic. I also love his accent, didn't occur to me that people hate him
I just hate his accent. It's not that I hate the Scottish accent... it's specifically the way that Di Resta speaks. It unnerves me so much, and i'm not even a native english speaker
Dutchman here, the moment I heard Josh say "biased towards Verstappen" I knew the reason why "some" Brits hate the dude. lol Sadly I see the same toxic behavior over here but with people biased twards Lewis.. One of my all time fav F1 drivers is a Scot (and for what I can tell has a slight bias towards Max)... D.C. But that is for reasons far beyond just his F1 career and current F1 involvement.
I had no idea people hated him. I heard plenty of complaints directed at crofty and brundle but that's for their blatant Hamilton bias. That and their unhealthy obsession with grandmothers. But the only thing I think anybody could hate Paul for is his inability to pronounce "mediums"
They were biased towards Lewis by praising Max all season until the disgusting behaviour at Jeddah? Stop fangirling over the Dutch danger and come back without your own biases.
@@jamespicksley5781 I'll keep my biases all I want. I can have them because I'm just an average fucking viewer. And I know my biases are far fucking healthier, safer and more logical and down to earth than whatever copium hamilton fans are huffing on the daily. As a commentator however, you are supposed to be impartial. You're providing a universal service to all viewers, regardless of who they support. You can't sprinkle in your own bias into it because you are alienating a huge group of people who are also fans of the sport.
Di Resta isn't overly biased in favor of Verstappen, it's just that his opinions often contradict SkyF1's other pundits, most of whom are truly biased members of the Hamilton fan club. Even Tsunoda would look tall if you surrounded him with hobbits.
Sky's unapologetic fanboying makes me sad that Channel 4 doesn't have the rights for live coverage any more. At least the C4 coverage has the same team as the good old BBC days, back when Jake Humphrey was lead face. Maybe Paul needs to ask his cousin Dario for advice.
As a Hamilton fan I was really annoyed with his comments on Sir Lewis Hamilton after the Turkish GP. Then, to add insult to injury, after watching the replay, I was even more annoyed to find myself in agreement. Damn the man. Why can't he just keep his mouth shut when Sir Lewis makes a mistake.
@@brodiebramwell-johnson4779 Exactly! See how when Crofty makes a remark that is clearly biased towards Mercedes or especially Lewis, then Martin Brundle shuts him down with a different opinion they have this 1 to 2 seconds of awkward silence. Like youre not supposed to say that, youre also british. Its why I love Martin, he doesnt let his patriotism get in the way of fair unbiased commentary. Britain isnt the only country watching f1 in english.
I am a new 2021 fan, but I have to say everytime I have heard him speak after a race on Sunday I have really enjoyed his analysis and what he had to say.
One of the greatest sports commentators was Vin Skully. He commentated for the Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers for over fifty years and is universally loved baseball fans because despite his undoubted bias for his team it didn't come at the expense of the other team or the players. I am relatively new to F1 so the hate towards Paul is something I don't completely get but I agree that the commentators should do there best to keep their bias out of the commentary booth. Hard to do, but I believe the job of the commentator is to enhance the audience's experience and negative comments can detract from some people's experience.
The difference is 7 world championships and a much more impressive pre-F1 career. Even their careers in F1: Crashtappen vs beating Alonso in the same car as a rookie after they dethroned Schumi. I'll be the first to agree that Hamilton doesnt deserve the WDC this year given his performances but no one in the history of the sport has had a more impressive career than pre-Merc Hamilton so it makes sense people laud him as the best.
I like him. I don't see him doing any commentary anymore (I don't get Sky F1), but when he was on terrestrial TV, he was really interesting. He's also appears to be a nice guy. If I see him doing the post race interviews, he sounds fair. Funny how so many people were yelling that he should have had a better seat before he lost his drive.
I can tell you without having to watch the video: Because when he was in F1 it was always everyone else's fault why things went wrong for him, even when even a muppet could see he'd messed up all by himself. Good drivers can recognise and admit to their errors. His whole shtick now is "I'm an ex-F1 driver", leaving out the part of being a crap F1 driver.
Also he's got an empty vacuum where his charisma should be when behind the mic. I don't care about the bias, everyone has one whether they admit or not but Paul's just so damned dull. He's the opposite of David Croft: Paul's probably got something interesting to say but conveys it in the most tedious fashion possible while Croft has bugger-all of use to report but animatedly shouts it to everyone.
I only started getting into F1 this year. Honestly he seems like a great guy with lots of insight. His commentary at Baku was brilliant To add to that, he seems to be the only one WITHOUT a Hamilton bias in Sky F1.
Thing is sky is so biased to Lewis, Norris and Russell. I wonder why the British TV channel is biased to the English drivers. So Di Resta is a good difference to have
He was a decent F1 driver, and probably deserved a bit more time and a seat. Typically forced out by paid drivers and rich daddy kids. That being said, he has been a bit nauseating as a commentator and he definitely has an issue with Hamilton, and Vettel. And yes, he thinks a bit too highly and biasedly towards Max. also in general ,he comes off overly harsh towards other drivers, especially about situations that he himself proved to have been a bit lacking himself. And finally, ironically, he has had a super soft spot for Bottas as well. Many times blaming the team for his shortcomings. These are my thoughts.
Well I think the Max bias is not that bad because the rest of the sky commentators especially Martin and Crofty are very biased towards Lewis so it makes it a bit more balanced.
I don't think he comes off as "overly harsh". Sure he criticizes drivers for poor performances, but why wouldn't you, it's formula 1. Also Bottas has never been given the chance by Mercedes to actually fight Lewis for the title.
Many a time during practice a commentator will say something then Paul will virtually repeat what has just been said! Davidson and Chandok are far better at the sky pad too. I like Brundell and Coultard but they need other commentators that are not peddlers! Mechanics etc.
The thing I didn’t much like about him is while driving in f1 he would trash he’s team endlessly without giving them the pat on the back for trying to make the car they had work with… just made it seem like he wasn’t happy with even having the call up to the main team from test or reserve driver.
I like Di Resta, I think many dislike him as he does talk more about the technical side of the sport. As for an apparent bias towards Max. Maybe he does but Herbert and Hill are vastly worse when it comes to Hamilton.
Exactly. I think only the Brits could even see it as bias because they only get hard Lewis and brit bias from the rest. So in contrast he seems bias when really I find him neutral. His argument with Hill at monza was hilarious like Hill was wanting mf max tried for murder but no Paul was the biased one. Smh
@@jagerbombasstic I am German and I find him incredibly biased, has nothing to do with it. They all have their favourites and that's fine (they are there to give their opinion afterall) but DiResta really makes every single bit of commentating about his love for Verstappen, it's like being on Twitter where under every F1 post some Verstappen fan posts about him even if the post was about human rights issues in Quatar, just so they could mention him. Btw even Crofty called DiResta out last week on his bias on live TV
Been waiting on this... Edit: After watching it it’s safe to say I agree with a lot of what Josh says...it’s very clear as a neutral that he does lean *HEAVILY* towards max, a bit too often for my liking. I get slight bias but his tends to be a bit much. Anyways...great vid josh! Keep it up mate
I agree, but its also a refreshing departure from the massive British bias the majority of the broadcast team makes no effort to really hide. It would be nice to just have a more neutral broadcast team because the Lewis and British Driver bias overall can get pretty grating to listen to weekend after weekend.
@@iLiftr yeah, this. I don't get how Paul can get all this hate, but the rest of the team isn't called out for their blatant British bias. It's been grating me so much this season that I've entirely stopped watching the main broadcast, (I'm in the us so the only coverage we can get is F1TV) and now pretty much exclusively watching the race from the pitlane channel and have found it to be quite refreshing. Sam Collins and the team is quite a blessing to watch over the main broadcast.
I understand from a brittisch point of view, Sky what is a brittisch broadcaster should have a bias towards brittisch drivers, and to me as a non-brit, this bias is pretty much present at Sky, favoring Hamilton and now Norris as well alot, and thats fine with me. Since Sky is imho fair enough to put other views at the mic as well, and have a nice discussion for us fans, but if everyone like said in this video is biased towards the brittisch drivers, its a boring show pretty fast. I like Di resta also favors other drivers, and i dont see a issue with a reporter in this setting to have a bias, as they all clearly have a favorite themself. Just like Damon hill allmost crawls into Hamiltons backside out of fanboism, and even when Hamilton makes a mistakes justifies it, or turns the blame towards otherdrivers making Hamilton a victim... Its all part of the game, and part to satisfy the hunger of certain groups of fans, Sky heavely caters the english, with maybe a few exceptions. And i also hear Johnny Herbert also make praises about Max, think he was one of the first calling him a upcoming worldchampion on Sky, way before Di-Resta started his Bias. So its all imho who you favor yourself to see the bias to a other driver.. Same here on Dutch TV, where the bias is overly extreme to Verstappen, to a point as a dutchman i starting to dislike Verstappen due the pure fanboism of some dutch reporters, bit like Damon Hill is towards Hamilton, and now Norris as well.. personally, i dont care, i just am glad after many boring years of predictable races that where mostly decided in Austin, with several races to go, good to see we dont know who will win this season till the last corner of the last race in Abu Dahbi, and who ever wins, Hamilton or Verstappen, this WC titel is well deserved. Best season in a long time... i love the specacle, love how much closer the field is, and really enjoy the fans and reporters falling over each other speculating stuff, and even make up stuff bout heir favorite drivers... bring it on!!!
Who needs a vpn with TLS1.2 in our Microsoft platform web browsers (unless you want a remote host to subscribe a service in a different country or territory)? That said, Paul is a great guy. Yes, a decade ago he often appeared somewhat overwhelmed - if Lewis and the rest had 'headlights' then Paul was a rabbit on the track. Truth is he has always had a steely determination, he keeps his cool, he's highly competent and, these days, he has a wealth of experience in many categories of motor racing. When it comes to Max then I feel both he and Brundle were 'light' on him at Monza but, to his credit, Max has kept his nose clean and his peddle to the metal since then. Paul is very technical and the dude still 'gets wet' with the Orica LMP2s in WEC. He's personable and his smiles and handovers in his interactions with others demonstrate genuine humility and respect for his fellow human being. I'd say Paul would make an excellent and a presentable team manager sometime soon. The likes of Christian Horner (dude's been stuck in second gear since Vettel left and he's not been 'stellar' this year) better get their sweat on.
Must admit, I've never picked up on any bias from Di Resta. I know he had issues with Hamilton Sr but he does rate Lewis. He is at best an average colour commentator, but a very good racing driver. He waffles an awful lot and speaks in riddles a bit, rather than clear sentences that make sense. This is my only gripe.
@@deezelkane actually pretty neutral a if anything, a Norris fan. Just happy to be watching a proper title fight for once. Not really into any of the tin foil hat nonsense.
Di Resta isn't "supposedly" biased towards Max, he 100% is, his takes are fucking awful. He was dog in F1 and is a shit pundit. But by far my biggest gripe, he just seems like a bought and paid for mouthpiece for the FIA. He will spout what ever angle the FIA are currently peddling, no matter how stupid. From my perspective
He was a pretty underrated driver. He was going to well in 2012 until they changed the tire regs because of one corner in silverstone. They beefed the tires up after that and the rest of his season went to shit. His tire management was pretty remarkable. Could you do a video on Anthony Hamilton and his dodgy business deals? His shady past has gone under the radar.
Don't forget Paul debuted in DTM in a two year old Persson Mercedes while the AMG Drivers got a brand new Merc. And that Dude still finished fifth Overall.
“It ain’t quite teleportation, but it’s about as close as we’re gonna get right now.”
That is possibly the most Josh Revell way to promote a sponsor that I have ever heard.
@@shizumi...8254 When will TH-cam ban bots like these
"If he cannot look behind he should stay at that reporting stuff"
~Kimi Raikkonen
Hungarian GP 2017
I was hoping someone thought about that quote so I don't have to write it down myself, and here we are :D
Yes.
Well few drivers are as good as Raikkonen is/was. So that isn’t all that damming of a remark.
I looked for this immediately after clicking on this video.
Damn, that really was 4 years ago huh?! Time flies
Rocketpowerdmohawk describes him perfectly. Paul the grand prix killer Di-Resta
THE NERVE
@@doppelkupplungsgetriebe I swear down to me nans grave!
Pual
The devil himself
Rent to pay by Deaf election plays (His intro theme)
In the end the Andretti failed buyout wasn't the money, but the control of the team. But no problem considering Michael said that today and this was recorded earlier!
Wot. Money was the reason they wanted Andretti to pay for 70% of owner ship of the company to get control of the works team and an additional 200million as 'insurance' for the team in the event things didn't work out bring the price tag to around 600 million
@@xeakpress Michael Andretti said that it wasn't (in) an interview earlier today when he was announcing DeFrancesco to complete the indycar team, can't post links but look it up on motorsport.
@@xeakpress it's not.
Tldr; Sauber wants to still handle the team despite Andretti 'buying' it. Andretti wants control of the team so he can "parachute" Herta into the 2nd seat. Conflict ensues and the deal fell through
NGL would have been funny if the Alpha team principal insulted Michael Andretti saying he wasnt Mario which made Michael decide to build the best F1 car to beat both Alpha Romeo but Ferrari
@@jeremeymcdude good luck with that. XD
when it was gasly vs the tractor, pual was on the tractor's side. enough said.
One of my biggest issues with him was when we knew Perez was leaving the now Aston Martin team. And how strongly he was calling for Albon be replaced by him and on multiple occasions even suggested he should replace Russell in Williams. It got so bad with Albon that Horner approached the commentators to more or less tell them to back off and leave Albon alone
True
Source on the Horner thing? Everyone was bad mouthing Albon last year.
Pundit thinks underperforming driver needs to be replaced by someone with more proven quality? Please tell me they executed him for him.
Yeah Albon was driving like shit, of course he was critical of him. You people act like they need to spare feelings for poorly performing drivers. This is the pinnacle of motorsport, there is no room for crying.
@Atalante Alter have yourself a good cry for me
Josh: "Why do people HATE Paul di Resta?"
Me: They do??
Me too bro,
Me too
Me too
I didn't know they did?! WTH?!
Exactly my first thought. :)
just mainly angry people on twitter tbf
For all the times he made mistakes in the heat of the moment, this was what made Murray Walker so respected by drivers and colleagues alike. He was fair to all drivers, painting them in the best light he could, even if they were Pay drivers.
Case in Point, Silverstone 1997, a piece from qualifying:
"That's Pedro Diniz, now we all know that Damon Hill has been taking a lot of flack in the last few races from his team boss, Tom Walkinshaw, one of the reasons that Tom was a bit agitated was the fact that Pedro Diniz, who is a very capable driver, but not the fastest in Formula One, has been quicker than Damon. Is he quicker Damon now? Most definitely, he is not, because Pedro Diniz is in 17th place, Damon Hill is in 13th place..."
Paul Di resta and Damon hill opposite end of spectrum so it balances out 😂
True😅
I just lost all my respect for Damon Hill after his "I has to take him out" comment in Monza.
Thanks for bringing up Damon. I don't believe there is anyone who swoons more for Lewis than that man... and so I get Josh's point. Having never found Paul that bad, then I guarantee it's my own bias at play.
@@dw235 Sky Sports Hamilton is a pretty bad tv channel with its bias; so to have someone who is not towing the company line is quite nice to see. Hearing the gushing of Crofty, Damon Hill, Johnny Herbert etc over the slightest fart Hamilton does has made me turn to the mute button on more than one occasion to the point where I turn on at the start of the race and turn off as soon as the timing screen comes up after the chequered flag.
@@ryuhayabaker I thought I was the only person doing that...the pro Hamilton bias coming from many of those Sky pundits is ridiculous. But then, the table has been set by ITV who spent years, literally years, pissing into Jenson Button's pocket when he couldn't win an egg and spoon race.
Came here after finding rocket powered Mohawk to get this answered.
Dude is a mentally ill genius...😂😂😂
I never had any strong feelings one way or another about him either as a driver or a pundit. A source did tell me, however, that while he may have talent and good racecraft, his treatment towards others in the paddock (while in racing) was subpar. In the minds of some, he shared a nickname with Ted Lasso, and not in a good way...
Well that would explain why he loves Max...
@@Cancoillotteman ah i see that youre a Lulu fan
@@Cancoillotteman you could say that about other commentators who seem to have been in bed with Lewis
@@Cancoillotteman ironic, considering that the common negative trait you are attempting to ascribe is entirely misplaced. It's Hamilton who has no friends in the paddock, not Max.
@@Cancoillotteman So Sir Luluboy has how many friends? Beside the poser celebs on a gala? Oh, right. Close to none.
Ngl, the only reason I know this guy's name is because of rocketpoweredmohawk xD
Commenting on your slight dig at Palmer - at least his punditry is pretty good and really insightful due to his extra years in the sport
Nicholls and palmers commentary is extremely underrated
I guess it’s because few people listen to BBC Radio 5 Live. I agree though, they’re a great duo!
Punditry good, F1 driving bad.
Maybe he bought media training with his Renault payout?
I haven't genuinely lol'd at a TH-cam video in a long time but that Palmer gag absolutely hit the mark.
Shame really, he wasn't too dissimilar to di Resta in terms of performance either!
“Sainz cut the corner there at turn 3 as well on the inside” Paul di resta he’s a snitch also he made the 2012 f1 season end in a safety car ruining the finale at interlagos
So what??? Grow up
"The Stench is in the sinus of the smeller"
- Josh Revell, 2021
This cracked me up!!
Same xD that's some quality content
Yeah,.... that's a good one.
Wise words.
😂😂😂 me 2
Rocketpoweredmohawk is his #1 hater
I think as a driver Paul really was quite good not great but good. Rewatching the 2013 season Paul really carried Force India for the first half of the season. And his drives in the car Spa quali Bahrain almost on the podium really seem to be overshadowed by Nico Hulkenburgs drive in sauber that year. In which really wasn’t all that remarkable as up until the Korea time sauber really weren’t anywhere. As a pundit he really seems to be riding the max train. However I do think he’s quite good as he is an ex F1 driver so he is able to provide that input that other pundits cannot. Not terrible but not brilliant either.
Has nothing to do with driving "career". It's about his manners as a pundit. His commentaries seems to be tinged with hate for who ever he critizes. He comes across as hateful. It's not like that with Jenson Button or Anthony Davidson or Martin Brundle, Johnny Herbert, etc...
Last season saw his massive hate on Albon and pushing for Checo to get a seat. Yammering about how Albon should always be within .3 seconds off MV and that he's supposed to be a Bottas for MV. Well, this year Checo has done okay but not ALWAYS within .3 off MV even with a better car. Yet nothing from di Rage about Checo. And that race where gave MV a tow in qually...Bottas did same for Hammy but was also able to qualify top 3 himself...
I hope Sky gives JB gets more air than di Rage or even replace him completely. And not just because JB was a World Champ.
Just my words. I have no idea where people see all this "Bias" stuff and I don't care for his career. His is just so negative when talking about others.
Are you seriously saying all that about Di Resta in the same phrase you also said ""Not like Martin Brundle" ?
Martin Brundle said "Here's the most important person in F1, and he's not blonde" when Vettel was hugging Newey after he won the championship. Brundle knee jerk reaction to Hamilton punting Albon in Austria by saying "WHAT IS ALEX DOING". Brundle saying "Oh he should've let Hamilton go" in 2012 when Maldonado was pushed off track. Even Crofty called him out on his biased reaction to the Spanish 2016 situation with Hamilton and Rosberg.
Please...
I don’t agree entirely. I do think he can be negative but I don’t think he ever says anything hateful or intentionally hurtful. I think he just says it how it is, and whether you agree or not, you have to respect that. You need people like Di Resta, don’t be so sensitive about it.
@@ludvigthebirb7131 It's almost as comical as Jolyon Palmer being an F1 'analyst' when he couldn't drive for toffee.
Yes it is sonny boy
Never had a problem with him, but his comments towards Yuki Tsunoda after Yuki admitted to being surprised at getting a seat for the 2022 season really rubbed me the wrong way.
It was like Paul was mad that an F1 driver told the truth for once instead of being a doublespeaking PR man.
wasn't it DC that said that? either way, it's still a really dumb thing to say really. the fact that someone is mad when a driver says the truth shows how we used to see how controlled the drivers are. which is also probably the reason people are sad that a character like kimi is gonna be gone next year.
@@autisticguitar DC said something along the lines of, Yuki should "pack his little bag and go home" because he didn't have the mind of a racing driver.
Di Resta said basically the same thing and when Rachel (I think) pointed out that she liked his honesty and that there's an additional language barrier for Yuki to deal with he interrupted her with, "This is Formula 1, though. It's the pinnacle of motorsports," which doesn't make much sense considering the number of pay drivers on the grid, and that it kind of came across like he'd prefer Yuki to just lie and pretend his rookie season was perfect.
Wrong pundit I think, David Coulthard went off on Yuki.
@@thisaccountisdead168 I hate them both equally they were the unsuccessful second driver...
@@thisaccountisdead168 Di Resta wasn’t criticising the honesty, he was criticising the mindset. And he’s right. To be successful in F1, you need the confidence and arrogance. You can’t go into a season thinking you probably don’t deserve to be there. If that is your mentality, you build up an inferiority complex and it’s hard to recover from that. Any driver, even if it’s Lewis Hamilton or Marcus Ericsson, needs to believe in themselves 100%.
RPM has many reasons to hate paul
Shit I actually like Di Resta, mainly from his racing career
I like Di Resta Resta bc of his accent lol
@@_aragornyesyes_7171 Yeah when he's not having awkward ideas I actually like listening to him.
i like him cuz he is one of the few pundits who speaks against hamilton , hamilton may be the greatest of all time , but you cant deny hes had some seasons handed to him, overall a 7 time world champion but only half of them really mean anything
@@thatonenigeriansformula really man? How has it been handed to him? Every great has had the best car and won championships with them. Someone has to drive that car and get it across the finish line. There is a reason he’s in the car and nobody else is.
@@KCS44 say it to my face he had competition in 2020 or towards the end of 2019, or 2017 or 14 and 15 go ahead and lie
Until a couple of weeks ago I didn't even know that Di Resta was "so" hated. I genuinely like him as a pundit. I've listened to his comments on several FPs/Qualies and I really fail to see the problem. Do I agree with every word he says? No. Is he at the Rosberg level of punditry? I don't think so. But to hate him? Come on, the guy does a decent job.
Got to agree with you. I also didn't realise he was so unpopular.
@@Ollyburl1ngo I think he's only hated by people who think him not treating Hamilton like he walks on water and turns water into organic wine is a criminal action against Britain.
@@TripleAlfafa it just can't be Hamilton fan's at all. Over 60% of the poll said they don't like him. Stop using Hamilton for everything.
@@chriscollins550
Well, they always use Hamilton to channel their hate, they consider it a BOGOF. Everything is Hamilton or Hamilton's fans fault. Apparently Sky Sports is also so into Hamilton. 😅
@@peterporkeresq.2817 That's true. But that's because he's raining world champion. When vettel champion it was all about him. The f1 title screen was all around vettel head and the car's in the back ground. Most interviews was about vettel and so on. Same when it was Michael s it was mainly about him. Them fan's are the problem not sky.
I've never really had a reason to dislike him. Hell, racing for United Autosports (pretty much my local team) kinda puts you in my good books if anything.
In that case, I should like him as I live pretty damn close to Silverstone
@@Chris-et2fm I feel like I pretty much have to like him, coming from Scotland.
@@grimhasty3597 i’m in your boat with that one
I would have loved him to be paired with Christian England: but tub floor rot put paid to that ever happening now...
Not remotely a fan of PDR but fricking love the fact how him simply breathing riles up half the f1 twitter xD
Lol I think he is a good guy. You should watch him race DTM its incredible. Also a plus he riles up twitter softies
After the 2022 Japanese gp, i think ppl have a good reason why
Would you please elaborate?
My issue with him is that he possibly cost Fernando his first World championship
*third
I thought I was the only one! I don't care if he's biased towards verstappen to be honest.. it kinda balances out all the pro Hamilton stuff from the likes of Jenson button. My issue is that practice, which sky do a really good job of covering and making somewhat entertaining, is generally ruined by him. While most of the other commentators and pundits realise they've got to keep an audience engaged and sometimes thats with a bit of banter, etc, diresta seems unable or unwilling to participate in this and just cuts people dead on air. It happens a lot. I'd much rather listen to chandock or kravitz... Whatever their careers lacked in driving standards (if they existed at all) they're fans of the sport and know the audience are interested in the same things they are rather than using it as an opportunity for points scoring or trying to be the biggest d*CK in the room.
He honestly might have had the most skilled set of teammates of any driver you have covered yet. Like talk about tough competition. Lewis, Seb, and even Di Grassi.
Even Adrian was no slouch
And Sutil and Hulkenberg, some of the best midfield drivers in the last 15 years?
@@dlake1224 Hulkenberg? WHAHAHAHHA the most useless driver in F1 ever
@@Firemarioflower
Still one of the best midfield talents in the past decade, lasted 11 seasons in F1 and has beaten 6 different teammates across a season
He’s still putting up good results this season
Ran into him at the Canadian GP in 2018. My friend asked him when he'll be getting back in an F1 car, he replied "Thank you". - Make of that what you will
Someone should alert rocketpoweredmohawk to this upload! The guy has some very ... interesting opinions on Paul di Resta XD
By the way, Max's backyard is in Monaco, and he was born in Belgium - zo Zandvoort is only Max's backyard because his parents hold Dutch passports.
whether RPM hates him as much as he says or not, it’s still funny to hear his “strong opinions”
The other guys on sky are all over Lewis' balls, might as well have one guy who doesn't like him.
Amen
This is very true..
1. How many Dutch pundits aren't Verstappen groupies?
2. Is it so shocking that a British broadcaster would support a British driver?
3. What tinted rose glasses do you watch F1 broadcasts with? They sure are showing you an inverted reality.
No they are not. What bs is this?
@@dianamaioru497
They are either experienceing confirmation bias or being wilfully obtuse.
Watch any rocketpoweredmohawk video and you’ll see exactly why Paul di resta should be considered “the devil himself”
He used to be my favourite pundit along with Ant, I remember in 2019 Hungary FP3 (I think) he commentated a Hamilton onboard practice quali lap and twitter praised him for his amazing commentary and insight… I do find him a little grumpy tho
His grumpiness gets a pass imo. He is Scottish!
I’ll take grumpy to whatever Hill is doing…
@@jagerbombasstic hill is an idiot I swear. After Monza he was pretty much saying verstappen did it on purpose. I don’t like him Martin sometimes. Seems like he’s a little grumpy
He always sounded grumpy - never a glass half full persona.
'twitter praised him'... who gives a fuck about the leftard simps on twitter?
Even he called Zhou a “ZOO”
I really like Paul! Was a big fan when he was in F1 and I quite like his analysis and banter with Anthony and Karun
Holy moly Antony and Karun are waaaay better imo, but that doesn't mean that I don't like Paul
Yes! They all have great chemistry when they are talking F1. Makes the practice sessions great to watch
@@goodmorningkay add button and rosberg in there as well. Would rather hear them in commentary over Brundle now especially as all of them have had more recent experience of driving f1 cars and button/rosberg have raced some of the drivers on the grid so have more insight
You only like diresta because he loves Max’s 🥜 lol you’re a vercrashan fan boy- no other reason
@@deezelkane I think you can tell by my TH-cam name that I like Vettel...don’t care who wins the title. I just like Paul, why can’t people just enjoy things rather than pointing out people’s flaws which are only caused by their own bias
Pual the grand prix killer*
Can’t believe people hate Paul for supposedly being biased toward Verstappen when Crofty literally dies weeping whenever anything gets in Hamilton’s way
True true, take Britain 2020. He was like 'oh boy can Hamilton win? Let's hope sooo' the entire time
@@Fred_the_1996 um that's juat not true
I think almost all british fans are Hamilton fans so to see a scotsman with verstappen will be controversial
@@alexlacl8730 do you live in Britain?
@@alexlacl8730 I can assure you we’re not all Hamilton fans by a long shot….
Josh Revell "Virtual banking is the devil"
Me "So if Paul de Resta is the devil, then Paul de Resta is Virtual banking?"
ngl dont hate him and didnt even realise he was hated
Me neither , it's actually funny hearing people stacking up reasons to justify their hatred , can't see paul losing any sleep over it tbh it's mostly on social media which can have extreme and toxic views imo
The way some of the Sky commentators completely take away from other drivers achievements to focus on Lewis irritates me so much that I honestly love Paul Di Resta being a breath of fresh air. The way they all acted after Monza was a prime example of how much bias there is towards Lewis while Paul sounded more neutral to me by stating both drivers at fault
Monza was 100% max’s fault, Paul just hated Lewis and bum licks max. So he had to go for 50:50 even though it wasn’t.
@@robbo132 you clearly know nothing about racing if you think it was more Max's fault. Try racing first then you will realise it was 50/50. Sky F1 love Ham, its actually disgusting. If you don't see it then you are probably a Ham fan
@@robbo132 The only thing more funny than those 2 clowns taking each other out at Monza, are the braindead “fans” blaming the other guy. Keep it up, it’s effing brilliant!
@@mike74em oh wow Mike, you are so different from everyone else, so special
To be fair, Brundle really thought it was Lewis' fault as it happened, but I do get the otherwise tendency for British bias.
Hmm, I never saw Paul as questionably biased or anything. I wouldn’t want him on commentary as he doesn’t been the best at picking things up when in the main light. But I always saw that crafty and Martin seem to have a definite British bias so his difference of opinion to them never made me think he had a max bias
All commentators have a little bias, it's just how they manage it live on commentary. The Dutch commentator though lol... That guy doesn't even try to hide it.
@@LouSassol69er Pretty good reason for that. Here's some stats to prove it:
- Max is only the 9th Dutch driver to enter 10 or more Grand Prix (not to be confused with starting)
- Max is only the 5th Dutch driver to score points (4th if you don't count Christijan Albers' 5th at the 2005 US Grand Prix)
- Max is only the 2nd Dutch driver to score a podium
- Max is the 1st Dutch driver to win a Grand Prix
- Max was the youngest ever driver to start a race
- Max was the youngest ever driver to win a race BY A MILE (2.5 years)
God, Crofty needs to fucking go. He can take Kravitz with him on his way out the door. Those two are bloody asinine
He's got a raging hard on for max and red bull, should have seen the way he was beaming at horner in an interview he wanted to tongue punch his fartbox
@@LouSassol69er most of sky accused max of trying to kill Hamilton they don’t try to hide it either
Never had a problem with him at all, makes everyone wayy more interesting
While Martin Brundle and Johnny Herbert are tongue punching Hamilton’s dirt star no one can complain about a pundit having a bias to a driver 😂😂
@@TheLOMTONG he’s more a Lewis fan than he is Max fan mate without a doubt, I think he respects Verstappen and his talent as a driver to driver basis but he definitely favours Lewis a lot more
@@8-bitMosh The same brundle that said max did nothing wrong in monza? That Brundle? Martin has always been rather fair in his appraisal. Saying others is just wrong.
@@8-bitMosh At least Brundle can still acknowledge and appreciate other drivers instead of downplaying their skills or race results. More so than others, I feel.
replace martin with damon and you're spot on
@@autisticguitar I’ll give you that Damon is also guilty of it for sure
Pual “the Grand Prix Killer” di resta
Tbf Paul Di Resta sways as much towards Max as Sky and F1 Twitter sways towards Lando and Lewis. Paul Di Resta, at least that I've noticed, is equally as biased as everyone else, but everyone else is biased towards the British drivers.
F1 twitter bias to lewis???😂😂 go under any comment section f1 posts about lewis hamilton
Tyler has never been on twitter then 😆
I think part of the hate is because he ruined a championship battle.
I genuinely had no idea there was any hate towards him.... Especially with a comparison to his colleagues such as Crofty & Brundle, now there's a ground for hate towards bias commentators
bias commentators??? what are you blabbering on about?
@@ddha0000 you must watch it on mute...can't say I blame you
@@sammjoey ever thought that you are the one with the bias.
@@ddha0000 I wouldn't say so, my pool of favoured drivers changes frequently.
However, there certainly is an apparent bias towards British drivers from the British commentators
Sky's entire coverage is biased. There's 20 drivers with 10 respective team principles on that grid all of which are competing, granted not all AT the same level, but still IN the same level of motorsport. Sky's pundits are nothing more than a bunch of lovestruck fanboys who are only interested in the opinions of their favourite 8 drivers race in race out!!
as the Mohawk would say "The devil himself"
I really don’t mind diresta. Maybe that’s my bias a a max fan but I find it more annoying when Crofty goes on about Hamilton and Russel like they’re the greatest thing to ever grace the earth.
It's not like Sky F1 is british, aren't they. You hardly gonna find unbiased commentary from Ziggo Sport, why do you expect it from Sky F1? They are paid by british fans, F1 were the ones who decided to show that broadcast in other countries, doesn't mean they have to be neutral
Well, Ham is the most succesful F1 driver of all time, so quite great in motor racing terms......
maaaan I was impartial to him for the longest time, but the nonsense he been saying I'm Japan after the Gasly incident is just pure BS and him talking nonsense
I’ve always thought he was a breath of fresh air tbh
The best thing about Paul is that he’s Scottish nothing else though (I’m Scottish)
He's an asshole in the booth. Been getting better recently though, but when Sky has Anthony Davidson, who's every bit as knowledgeable as he is but much more charming, I have no idea what they need him for.
Di Resta’s voice could induce crippling depression.
Some people really hate him ? I liked him quite a lot when he was in F1...
It's his commentary now for Sky. People constantly asking Sky to get rid.
Nothing against him as a driver, but as a sky “pundit”, that guy annoys the hell out of me. His comments are extremely dumb
he is a bad pundit
@@un6250 dude then you have to remember that Ralf pissing Schumacher is main commentator in germany. Hes reaching Villneuve levels of crap talk, with him giving no insides, only talks abour how good he was, and the days when he was racing
(Or they are talking about if you like your steak medium, or rare (in the middle of the race))
Well I never liked di resta...
He is ok 👌drops some clangers every now and then but I appreciate his opinion. However Crofty does my skull in! He is rude, domineering and loves himself. Every time time he asks a former f1 driver their opinion and then talks over them I literally roll my eyes and say “shut up” to myself
This is pretty much my take. ‘Crofty’ has really started to grind my gears and actually hearing people having different opinions is really interesting whether biased or not.
Man y do people hate Crofty I don’t understand the hate. Like yes he is biased towards Lewis, but the same can be said to almost every commentator. Like how Dutch commentators are biased towards max and how Spanish commentators are biased towards Carlos and Nando
We need a video on David Croft as well, I see some people don’t like him either
Crofty is really good though. People don't understand how hard it is to get that level of hype into commentary.
I dislike him because he's just dog water of a commentator. Often tends to spurt out nonsense and make silly mistakes when commentating (for an example, during the Italian GP he said that Kubica's car was the one who had trouble, instead of Giovinazzi + he mixed up their race numbers), having a clear bias towards Hamilton (but also sometimes blowing smoke up Verstappen's rear end). All in all, he's a sucky commentator. I much prefer Brundle over him.
Huh what...??? Him.... really?
@@xhellystarx oh yeah the Italian GP, that mistake was quite easy lol
@Tendoman77 I don't watch F1 on Skysports, therefore I'm lucky not having to listen Crofty's gibberish; buuuut, I can only imagine people rolling their eyes whenever he mentions AWS. 🤣
He was one of my favorite drivers on the grid. The Scottish Checo Perez. Sometimes he would start among the backmarkers just to overcut literally three quarter of the entire grid, finishing somewhere around 4th to 6th. Criminally underrated
criminally underrated?? he is like an okay drivers.. not bad, and obviously not that good... pretty similar with hulkenberg..
@@davidaprians true. He's not as good as Perez. But I'll always remember him as someone that is highly skilled in tyre management
@@davidaprians Not that good? come off it, an Asian Le Mans title, DTM title, formula 3 euro title, Super 1 national karts title. The man has proven skill and trophies to show for it. better percentages than Felipe Massa and similar to Daniel Ricciardo, and they certainly aren't meh drivers.
His "insight" offers absolutely nothing at all. Very dull man who is capable of filling a bit of dead air, that's about it. Didn't realise just how bad he was until Button started to commentate during a few races and FP sessions, gives so much detail about how it is to be a driver part of a team - Di Resta pales in comparison
100% agree.
Raced Paul as a Kid, his parents would send him to the track 2-3 days BEFORE anyone had arrived, he pretty much never went to school just did laps every day. Yes he won a lot but he was on a different $$ bracket. He was pretty talentless tbh
I appreciate his insight and energy while commentating; his hotlap commentaries are fantastic. I also love his accent, didn't occur to me that people hate him
Same, him and Button probably provide the best technical commentary, compared to the rest anyway
Oh, the accent... "Mershedes", "downforsh"...
@@snivels Button and Rosberg are very good. Paul just states the obvious and has clear bias
@@LG_XD I do enioy how straight up Rosberg is in interviews, he has no filter and it catches people off guard haha
I just hate his accent. It's not that I hate the Scottish accent... it's specifically the way that Di Resta speaks. It unnerves me so much, and i'm not even a native english speaker
Me, a Scot watching this: 😐
I’ve met Paul before, and he’s a great guy, I honestly don’t know where the hat comes from lmao
I know you meant hate, but hat made me laugh.
Sincerely a fellow Scot who agrees with you.
Maybe it’s because we understand what he’s saying 😆
@@stuartleckie haha I didn’t even notice I put hat 😂. And I reckon the fact people don’t understand him as well as something to do with it
Dutchman here, the moment I heard Josh say "biased towards Verstappen" I knew the reason why "some" Brits hate the dude. lol
Sadly I see the same toxic behavior over here but with people biased twards Lewis.. One of my all time fav F1 drivers is a Scot (and for what I can tell has a slight bias towards Max)... D.C. But that is for reasons far beyond just his F1 career and current F1 involvement.
I had no idea people hated him. I heard plenty of complaints directed at crofty and brundle but that's for their blatant Hamilton bias. That and their unhealthy obsession with grandmothers. But the only thing I think anybody could hate Paul for is his inability to pronounce "mediums"
mEeJum cOmPouNd TyRes
I know Crofty is a ham.fan but I genuinely think Martin is a max fan
They were biased towards Lewis by praising Max all season until the disgusting behaviour at Jeddah?
Stop fangirling over the Dutch danger and come back without your own biases.
@@jamespicksley5781 I'll keep my biases all I want. I can have them because I'm just an average fucking viewer. And I know my biases are far fucking healthier, safer and more logical and down to earth than whatever copium hamilton fans are huffing on the daily.
As a commentator however, you are supposed to be impartial. You're providing a universal service to all viewers, regardless of who they support. You can't sprinkle in your own bias into it because you are alienating a huge group of people who are also fans of the sport.
Di Resta isn't overly biased in favor of Verstappen, it's just that his opinions often contradict SkyF1's other pundits, most of whom are truly biased members of the Hamilton fan club.
Even Tsunoda would look tall if you surrounded him with hobbits.
Exactly
Sky's unapologetic fanboying makes me sad that Channel 4 doesn't have the rights for live coverage any more. At least the C4 coverage has the same team as the good old BBC days, back when Jake Humphrey was lead face.
Maybe Paul needs to ask his cousin Dario for advice.
Hi is a sweaty sock. Next question. I'm here all day...
As a Hamilton fan I was really annoyed with his comments on Sir Lewis Hamilton after the Turkish GP. Then, to add insult to injury, after watching the replay, I was even more annoyed to find myself in agreement. Damn the man. Why can't he just keep his mouth shut when Sir Lewis makes a mistake.
Always appreciated his insight, experience, and commentary. Paul has never struck me as overtly biased towards a team or driver.
It’s just because the rest of the F1 pundits are super biased to Lewis. So anything different is a shock to fans
@@brodiebramwell-johnson4779 Exactly! See how when Crofty makes a remark that is clearly biased towards Mercedes or especially Lewis, then Martin Brundle shuts him down with a different opinion they have this 1 to 2 seconds of awkward silence. Like youre not supposed to say that, youre also british. Its why I love Martin, he doesnt let his patriotism get in the way of fair unbiased commentary. Britain isnt the only country watching f1 in english.
I am a new 2021 fan, but I have to say everytime I have heard him speak after a race on Sunday I have really enjoyed his analysis and what he had to say.
his accent is nice to listen to as well
One of the greatest sports commentators was Vin Skully. He commentated for the Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers for over fifty years and is universally loved baseball fans because despite his undoubted bias for his team it didn't come at the expense of the other team or the players. I am relatively new to F1 so the hate towards Paul is something I don't completely get but I agree that the commentators should do there best to keep their bias out of the commentary booth. Hard to do, but I believe the job of the commentator is to enhance the audience's experience and negative comments can detract from some people's experience.
I love how people are throwing hate to this dude because he has a Max bias when literally all the other commentator has a clear British driver bias🙄
If people hat Di Resta for Max bias they are pure hypocrites because they love Brundle, Crofty, and Damon Hill despite their relentless Lewis Bias
The difference is 7 world championships and a much more impressive pre-F1 career. Even their careers in F1: Crashtappen vs beating Alonso in the same car as a rookie after they dethroned Schumi.
I'll be the first to agree that Hamilton doesnt deserve the WDC this year given his performances but no one in the history of the sport has had a more impressive career than pre-Merc Hamilton so it makes sense people laud him as the best.
I like him. I don't see him doing any commentary anymore (I don't get Sky F1), but when he was on terrestrial TV, he was really interesting. He's also appears to be a nice guy. If I see him doing the post race interviews, he sounds fair.
Funny how so many people were yelling that he should have had a better seat before he lost his drive.
I like Paul only because of the Merhshadies Meedjum Tyres
I can tell you without having to watch the video: Because when he was in F1 it was always everyone else's fault why things went wrong for him, even when even a muppet could see he'd messed up all by himself. Good drivers can recognise and admit to their errors.
His whole shtick now is "I'm an ex-F1 driver", leaving out the part of being a crap F1 driver.
Also he's got an empty vacuum where his charisma should be when behind the mic. I don't care about the bias, everyone has one whether they admit or not but Paul's just so damned dull. He's the opposite of David Croft: Paul's probably got something interesting to say but conveys it in the most tedious fashion possible while Croft has bugger-all of use to report but animatedly shouts it to everyone.
Wasn't a crap F1 driver at all lol
Hamilton literally blames others for all of his mistakes
8:26 it not only made sense, but we should all be using this idiom from now on! (seriously, I will try to use it at least once)
I only started getting into F1 this year. Honestly he seems like a great guy with lots of insight. His commentary at Baku was brilliant
To add to that, he seems to be the only one WITHOUT a Hamilton bias in Sky F1.
Thing is sky is so biased to Lewis, Norris and Russell. I wonder why the British TV channel is biased to the English drivers. So Di Resta is a good difference to have
He was a decent F1 driver, and probably deserved a bit more time and a seat. Typically forced out by paid drivers and rich daddy kids. That being said, he has been a bit nauseating as a commentator and he definitely has an issue with Hamilton, and Vettel. And yes, he thinks a bit too highly and biasedly towards Max. also in general ,he comes off overly harsh towards other drivers, especially about situations that he himself proved to have been a bit lacking himself. And finally, ironically, he has had a super soft spot for Bottas as well. Many times blaming the team for his shortcomings. These are my thoughts.
Well I think the Max bias is not that bad because the rest of the sky commentators especially Martin and Crofty are very biased towards Lewis so it makes it a bit more balanced.
I don't think he comes off as "overly harsh". Sure he criticizes drivers for poor performances, but why wouldn't you, it's formula 1. Also Bottas has never been given the chance by Mercedes to actually fight Lewis for the title.
Frankly one can do with a change to the entire sky F1 team. We need unbiased startups with similar access
@@davest.clarejones930 Yep.
Nothing ruins a race weekend as much as hearing Crofty and Brundle blabber on.
Many a time during practice a commentator will say something then Paul will virtually repeat what has just been said! Davidson and Chandok are far better at the sky pad too.
I like Brundell and Coultard but they need other commentators that are not peddlers! Mechanics etc.
for non-native english who like to watch f1 in english he's just too hard to comprehend
First time I noticed him was during Mexican GP this year and thought he was very good. Brundle is by far the best, but Paul could be second
The thing I didn’t much like about him is while driving in f1 he would trash he’s team endlessly without giving them the pat on the back for trying to make the car they had work with… just made it seem like he wasn’t happy with even having the call up to the main team from test or reserve driver.
I like Di Resta, I think many dislike him as he does talk more about the technical side of the sport. As for an apparent bias towards Max. Maybe he does but Herbert and Hill are vastly worse when it comes to Hamilton.
Exactly. I think only the Brits could even see it as bias because they only get hard Lewis and brit bias from the rest. So in contrast he seems bias when really I find him neutral. His argument with Hill at monza was hilarious like Hill was wanting mf max tried for murder but no Paul was the biased one. Smh
@@jagerbombasstic yep, I'm a Brit and you're spot on!
@@jagerbombasstic you find him neutral because he is Verstappen fanboy and in every opportunity tries to discredit Lewis😭
@@jagerbombasstic I am German and I find him incredibly biased, has nothing to do with it. They all have their favourites and that's fine (they are there to give their opinion afterall) but DiResta really makes every single bit of commentating about his love for Verstappen, it's like being on Twitter where under every F1 post some Verstappen fan posts about him even if the post was about human rights issues in Quatar, just so they could mention him.
Btw even Crofty called DiResta out last week on his bias on live TV
im more surprised that a "Why do people HATE Crofty/Brundle" video isnt produced first.
Been waiting on this...
Edit: After watching it it’s safe to say I agree with a lot of what Josh says...it’s very clear as a neutral that he does lean *HEAVILY* towards max, a bit too often for my liking. I get slight bias but his tends to be a bit much. Anyways...great vid josh! Keep it up mate
I agree, but its also a refreshing departure from the massive British bias the majority of the broadcast team makes no effort to really hide. It would be nice to just have a more neutral broadcast team because the Lewis and British Driver bias overall can get pretty grating to listen to weekend after weekend.
@@iLiftr yeah, this. I don't get how Paul can get all this hate, but the rest of the team isn't called out for their blatant British bias. It's been grating me so much this season that I've entirely stopped watching the main broadcast, (I'm in the us so the only coverage we can get is F1TV) and now pretty much exclusively watching the race from the pitlane channel and have found it to be quite refreshing. Sam Collins and the team is quite a blessing to watch over the main broadcast.
I understand from a brittisch point of view, Sky what is a brittisch broadcaster should have a bias towards brittisch drivers, and to me as a non-brit, this bias is pretty much present at Sky, favoring Hamilton and now Norris as well alot, and thats fine with me.
Since Sky is imho fair enough to put other views at the mic as well, and have a nice discussion for us fans, but if everyone like said in this video is biased towards the brittisch drivers, its a boring show pretty fast. I like Di resta also favors other drivers, and i dont see a issue with a reporter in this setting to have a bias, as they all clearly have a favorite themself.
Just like Damon hill allmost crawls into Hamiltons backside out of fanboism, and even when Hamilton makes a mistakes justifies it, or turns the blame towards otherdrivers making Hamilton a victim... Its all part of the game, and part to satisfy the hunger of certain groups of fans, Sky heavely caters the english, with maybe a few exceptions.
And i also hear Johnny Herbert also make praises about Max, think he was one of the first calling him a upcoming worldchampion on Sky, way before Di-Resta started his Bias.
So its all imho who you favor yourself to see the bias to a other driver.. Same here on Dutch TV, where the bias is overly extreme to Verstappen, to a point as a dutchman i starting to dislike Verstappen due the pure fanboism of some dutch reporters, bit like Damon Hill is towards Hamilton, and now Norris as well..
personally, i dont care, i just am glad after many boring years of predictable races that where mostly decided in Austin, with several races to go, good to see we dont know who will win this season till the last corner of the last race in Abu Dahbi, and who ever wins, Hamilton or Verstappen, this WC titel is well deserved.
Best season in a long time... i love the specacle, love how much closer the field is, and really enjoy the fans and reporters falling over each other speculating stuff, and even make up stuff bout heir favorite drivers...
bring it on!!!
Who needs a vpn with TLS1.2 in our Microsoft platform web browsers (unless you want a remote host to subscribe a service in a different country or territory)? That said, Paul is a great guy. Yes, a decade ago he often appeared somewhat overwhelmed - if Lewis and the rest had 'headlights' then Paul was a rabbit on the track. Truth is he has always had a steely determination, he keeps his cool, he's highly competent and, these days, he has a wealth of experience in many categories of motor racing. When it comes to Max then I feel both he and Brundle were 'light' on him at Monza but, to his credit, Max has kept his nose clean and his peddle to the metal since then. Paul is very technical and the dude still 'gets wet' with the Orica LMP2s in WEC. He's personable and his smiles and handovers in his interactions with others demonstrate genuine humility and respect for his fellow human being. I'd say Paul would make an excellent and a presentable team manager sometime soon. The likes of Christian Horner (dude's been stuck in second gear since Vettel left and he's not been 'stellar' this year) better get their sweat on.
Must admit, I've never picked up on any bias from Di Resta. I know he had issues with Hamilton Sr but he does rate Lewis. He is at best an average colour commentator, but a very good racing driver. He waffles an awful lot and speaks in riddles a bit, rather than clear sentences that make sense. This is my only gripe.
You’ve never picked up bias LOLLLLLLL telL me you’re a max fan girl without telling me 🤦♂️
@@deezelkane actually pretty neutral a if anything, a Norris fan. Just happy to be watching a proper title fight for once. Not really into any of the tin foil hat nonsense.
@@mitchsvideos yeh, verstappen fan. 👍
‘In a time where miracles weren’t really a thing’, Pastor Maldonado wins in a Williams that year…
All this video is missing is an angry rant by Rocketpoweredmoahawk 😂
The thing about his commentary that gets me is him trying to get over the catchphrase "stomping on the loud peddle".
“He’s Scottish” I felt that 😞
the stench is in the sinus of the smeller.. fucking love it man
Di Resta isn't "supposedly" biased towards Max, he 100% is, his takes are fucking awful.
He was dog in F1 and is a shit pundit.
But by far my biggest gripe, he just seems like a bought and paid for mouthpiece for the FIA. He will spout what ever angle the FIA are currently peddling, no matter how stupid.
From my perspective
Well said!💯💯💯
Probably the only channel where I don’t skip the product plug
He was a pretty underrated driver. He was going to well in 2012 until they changed the tire regs because of one corner in silverstone. They beefed the tires up after that and the rest of his season went to shit. His tire management was pretty remarkable.
Could you do a video on Anthony Hamilton and his dodgy business deals? His shady past has gone under the radar.
Anthony Hamilton dodgy dealings? Shady past? Do tell....
Don't forget Paul debuted in DTM in a two year old Persson Mercedes while the AMG Drivers got a brand new Merc.
And that Dude still finished fifth Overall.
"Maybe people dislike Di Resta for his heavy bias towards Max Verstappen."
My ass.
at least when he commentates with crofty it balances out since crofty wont shut up about hamilton
@@ligamo agree; granted, Croft and Hamilton are both from Stevenage, England.
He's just like that because he thinks Lewis his coming for his job 🤣
@@sheldensummers8317 I don't think Lewis wants anything to do with F1 when he retires.
@@lorddrac_dontaskmetodance Lewis also says his tyres are gone to fool opposition DI resta isn't buying it 🤣
When Rosberg comentated the Hungarian GP , he was extremely biased towards Lewis, but all that was said was that we want to see him in more races
Wait was that the man who beat Lewis in equal machinery?
He’s the British version of Jacques Villeneuve
I don't hate him, I just have no idea what he's saying, I can't understand him at all XD